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ESP32-C6 vs PIC18F57Q84

RV32IMAC (ESP32-C6) at 160 MHz against PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

ESP32-C6-DevKitM-1

ESP32-C6

RV32IMAC (ESP32-C6)
Family
RISC-V
Board
ESP32-C6-DevKitM-1
Clock
160 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano

PIC18F57Q84

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
Clock
64 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
64.7×
ESP32-C6 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-C6
506×
uint32_t multiply
Closest cell
23.9×
uint8_t add
Clock for clock
25.9×
ESP32-C6 needs fewer cycles per op (2.50× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster ESP32-C6 is than PIC18F57Q84, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-C6 ahead. Orange: PIC18F57Q84 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 23.9× 12.8 M/s · 538 k/s 27.7× 14 M/s · 504 k/s 26.8× 14 M/s · 520 k/s 59.8× 8.1 M/s · 135 k/s 77.3× 8.2 M/s · 106 k/s
uint16_t 31.5× 10.3 M/s · 328 k/s 31.5× 10.3 M/s · 328 k/s 38.5× 11.1 M/s · 287 k/s 118× 7.35 M/s · 62.1 k/s 105× 7.43 M/s · 70.6 k/s
uint32_t 53.6× 12.8 M/s · 240 k/s 49.6× 11.9 M/s · 240 k/s 506× 11.9 M/s · 23.5 k/s 300× 7.35 M/s · 24.5 k/s 260× 7.43 M/s · 28.6 k/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 64.2× 2.4 M/s · 37.4 k/s 72.2× 2.29 M/s · 31.7 k/s 120× 2.7 M/s · 22.6 k/s 88.7× 905 k/s · 10.2 k/s 48.5× 959 k/s · 19.8 k/s
double 37.3× 1.39 M/s · 37.4 k/s 42.7× 1.35 M/s · 31.7 k/s 75.4× 1.7 M/s · 22.6 k/s 48.2× 492 k/s · 10.2 k/s 32.7× 647 k/s · 19.8 k/s

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